If only. Those must be the two saddest words in the world.

The dragonets found the carpenters to be even more fascinating than the furniture, and followed the poor men from pen to pen, crowding around to watch, tasting the wooden planks, trying to steal the tools. It made for an interesting day for everyone, as the boys tried to keep the dragonets away from the carpenters, and the dragonets tried to get at the carpenters, and the carpenters worked probably a great deal faster than they ever had in their lives, sure that the dragonets would go from tasting the wood to tasting them.

Magic, like technology, is a tool.

Some must be warriors, that others may live in peace.

This I think I have learned: where there is love, the form does not matter, and the gods are pleased. This I have observed: what occurs in nature, comes by the hand of nature, and if the gods did not approve, it would not be there ~ Moondance k'Treva (Magic's Pawn)

If it is stupid but it works, it isn't stupid. (a Shin'a'in saying)

When warriors feel afraid they lack something, it is only because they are forgetful. They have forgotten how capable they truly are.